Oscar Mayer’s Cringey ‘Cryptocurrency’ Promotion Got Hit With a Cease-and-Desist

Posted on May 4, 2018

Oscar Mayer’s Cringey ‘Cryptocurrency’ Promotion Got Hit With a Cease-and-Desist

Because we live in a meme-saturated hellworld, meat and cold cut company Oscar Mayer is running a promotion called “Bacoin,” a cryptocurrency-inspired redemption program designed to get people to promote bacon on social media. This is lame and I’m sorry to have made you read that, but dear reader, something has happened that makes this branding play improbably, unbelievably, sort of interesting.

Source: vice.com